Professor Phil Booth
A. G. Leventis Associate Professor in Eastern Christianity
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Biography:
I gained a BA, MPhil, and PhD in Classics from Cambridge before moving to Oxford as a JRF in History at Trinity College in 2008. In 2011 I returned to Cambridge as a Leverhulme Post-doctoral Fellow and Fellow in Classics at Churchill College, before returning to Oxford in 2012 as the A.G. Leventis Lecturer, then Associate Professor, in Eastern Christianity (split 50/50 between the Faculty of History and the Faculty of Theology and Religion). I moved from Trinity to St Peter’s College, where I am now a Research Fellow, in 2018.
Research Area/s:
History of Christianity
Research Interests:
Ecclesiastical History, in particular the history of eastern Christianities in the eastern Roman empire, the Sasanian empire, and the caliphate in the fourth to tenth centuries.
Links:
Select Publications
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The Ghost of Maurice at the Court of Heraclius
October 2019|Journal article|Byzantinische Zeitschrift -
Debating the Faith in Early Islamic Egypt
June 2019|Journal article|Journal of Ecclesiastical History -
"Liturgification" and Dissent in the Crisis of the East Roman Empire (6th-8th Centuries)
December 2018|Conference paper -
A Circle of Egyptian Bishops at the End of Roman Rule (c.600): Texts and Contexts
August 2018|Journal article|Le Museon -
Towards the Coptic Church: The Making of the Severan Episcopate
April 2018|Journal article|Millennium -
Muslim conquests: The Chronicle of John of Nikiu (c. 690)
April 2018|Chapter|Reading the Middle Ages: Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic World -
Images of Emperor and Emirs in Early Islamic Egypt
January 2018|Conference paper -
Maximos the Confessor
April 2017|Chapter|Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium -
The Last Years of Cyrus, Patriarch of Alexandria (d.642)
July 2016|Journal article|Centre de Recherche d'Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance: Travaux et Memoires -
On the Life of the Virgin Attributed to Maximus Confessor
April 2015|Journal article|The Journal of Theological Studies